Dinner Quotes - Page 29

• Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Simplicity, Speech, Want

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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• Early in my career when we went to golf tournaments and charity dinners I noticed businessmen and executives would give the players their cards. Well, they're giving you their cards for a reason. I said to my wife, 'All the guys get these cards and then when they get to the parking lot they rip them up or throw them away. It's really weird.' My wife .. said maybe you should just sign a picture and mail it to them. You know, 'Great playing golf with you,' or whatever. So, I did and lo and behold some of those guys I sent pictures to way back then are now CEOs at big companies.

  Tie Domi

  Rip, Golf, Player

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• People talk about the prestige of beating records but prestige never bought me dinner in a restaurant. It's winning games that does that.

  Steve Coppell

  Winning, Games, People

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• Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way." ... "Surely a better time must be drawing nigh when godlike human beings will become truly humane, and learn to put their animal fellow mortals in their hearts instead of on their backs or in their dinners.

  John Muir

  Heart, Animal, Drawing

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• Over the weekend, of course, down there in Washington, D.C., they had the big White House Correspondents' Dinner. Do you know who was really funny? President Obama. So funny, in fact, he has already been promised 'The Tonight Show' in five years.

  David Letterman

  Weekend, Years, White

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• Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if they are.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Two, Reform

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled

  Will Rogers

  Country, Work, Would Be

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• If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

  George Eliot

  Food, Thinking, Cooking

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.292

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• I've weaned myself down to about, on a great day, on a really great day, three cigarettes. For a nicotine junkie the essential cigs are three: the first-of-the-day cigarette smoked after lunch, the after-dinner cigarette and then the one taken whenever you want - the luxury-wild-card smoke. It used to be quite a bit more. It used to be, I'd smoke the table. I'd smoke the patch. I'd smoke the gum. So I feel good about it.

  Johnny Depp

  Taken, Lunch, Luxury

  "The two Johnnies". www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2005.

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• I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner.

  Diana Trilling

  Women, Laughing, Breakfast

  Diana Trilling (1993). “The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling”, Harcourt

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• You know I'll kiss you for my supper. Yeah, you know I'll kiss you for my dinner, baby.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Baby, Kissing, Obesity

  Jimi Hendrix, Roger St. Pierre (1986). “Jimi Hendrix: recorded poems”

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• That's a big part of being a designer now: going out, having dinners, meeting people. Being in an ivory tower, you can feel very removed.

  Joseph Altuzarra

  Ivory Tower, People, Towers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm very consistent about spending time with family. And when you have dinner with your daughters - they'll keep you in your place and they'll teach you something about perspective.

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Perspective, Spending Time

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well.

  David Hare

  Party, Argument, Should

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• People tell me if I don't eat vegetables, I'm going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But I was never overweight as a player. There was a clause in my contract that said I had to weigh in at 270 every Friday morning. I always made it. I'd have dinner on Monday, and then I wouldn't eat until Friday.

  Art Donovan

  Friday, Monday, Morning

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• Broke my femur on a cruise with my wife in Italy. I'd walked back to my cabin after dinner with half a plate of spaghetti when I leaned in to open the door. Turns out it was already open, so I fell flat on my face like something from the Keystone Kops.

  Art Donovan

  Doors, Wife, Half

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• I don't have a nanny or a housekeeper, and I only have a cleaner for one hour each week. I finish work and go home. I cook the dinner. I run into Tesco and do the housework in the evening.

  Victoria Beckham

  Running, Home, Nannies

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• We all like to look forward to things. Incentivize yourself with a reward—a massage, dinner with a friend, a night watching your favorite show, a yoga class on Saturday morning. Visualizing a reward at the end of the to-do tunnel may help with reaching goals/completing tasks.

  Samantha Ettus

  Morning, Yoga, Night

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• I started getting emails from Anna Wintour inviting me to her dinners. It was just surreal.

  Theophilus London

  Email, Anna, Surreal

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• Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time.

  Emily Oster

  Mom, Mother, Dad

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• Cold steel was not meant to be an after-dinner dessert!

  Dan Meyer

  Were Not Meant To Be, Steel, Cold

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• We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.

  Courtney Summers

  Lunch, Breakfast, Soundtracks

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• One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if chatting over dinner. The approach elevates the words.

  Neil Genzlinger

  Style, Addresses, Speech

  "The Man Who Protected Lincoln" by Neil Genzlinger, www.nytimes.com. February 14, 2013.

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• For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Year’s Eves included. I worked mornings and afternoons, resuming work after dinner. I remember feeling as if life were a protracted exercise in pulling myself out of a well by a rope, and that rope was work.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  New Year, Morning, Holiday

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• I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily see a band. But I also like the wild places, especially hiking in the desert and the Eastern woodlands. Do I have to choose?

  Charles de Lint

  Book, Night, Cities

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